In the run up to next Sunday's 'electoral' process for the Turkish-Cypriot community, polls frontrunner Tufan Erhurman toured several areas including occupied Bogazi, Sygkrasi, Spathariko and Ayios Georgios Spatharikou, focusing on his Cyprus issue positions, the EU, as well as mixed marriages.
'Peace between Cyprus, Turkey and Greeced would help the entire region breathe', Erhurman said, according to a Republic Turkish Party statement, further noting the importance of diplomacy and dialogue and adding in this regard that relations with international interlocutors like the UN and the EU are an absolute necessity.
'Every opportunity must be utilised to the very end', he stressed.
Referring to the issue of granting EU citizenship to children of mixed Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot marriages, the RTP candidate said that no Greek-Cypriot leader has the authority to decide who a Turkish-Cypriot will choose to marry.
On relations with Turkey and responding to Tatar accusations on Turkish guarantees, Erhurman voiced the opinion that any TC leader has always cooperated with Turkey, a practice that will continue based on common interests and 'rights', as he called them, stemming from the Treaty of Guarantees.